Any Dr. Seuss fans in your house? If so, you’re going to want to enter Reno Moms Blog latest giveaway - tickets to Cat in the Hat! The Cat in the Hat TheatreWorks of Northern Nevada’s summer Artown production, will launch Artown’s 2013 free Family Series in Wingfield Park, 7 …
Read More »Monthly Archives: June 2013
High-Class Highchairs: Babies In Bistros
“Do you want to meet up for an early dinner after we get done at the Discovery Museum?” The husband and I get this text a lot, as weekends for our friends revolve around dance classes or music lessons and trips to the playground or the museum. As the good …
Read More »Homeschooling Field Trip to the Discovery Museum
The Discovery Museum provided a family pass for Reno Moms Blog contributor Jessica L. to visit for the day. As a homeschooling mom of three, she found ways to make it an educational field for her family. Memorial Day followed a busy day for us this year. Our littlest guy …
Read More »Tips to Make Sure the “Happiest Place on Earth” is Happy!
When my oldest son, Matt, was four years old, he asked to go to Disneyland. I told him that I’d take him when he was seven. After all, that was three years away, right? Piece of cake! Matt turned seven in May and I was faced with a dilemma. How …
Read More »Playground Politics
I’ve started to dread playgrounds. It started when my daughter was about 18 months old. It was a snowy winter day, and since we’d gotten used to a daily walk/stroller push around the park, we were getting antsy sitting indoors. I decided to take her for a brisk walk around …
Read More »Preview: Family-Friendly Artown
July is just a few short days away, and if you’ve lived in this area any time at all, you know what that means: Artown! This 31-day festival takes over the community each summer with endless ways to create and appreciate art in all forms - music, dance, theater, photography …
Read More »Camping, It’s In Tents
My husband and I have been camping since the very beginning of our relationship. In fact, camping was how our relationship started. Our first tent was set up about a football field away from the ocean. We were just outside the lazy beach town of La Manzanilla located along the …
Read More »Choosing to Work
Sometimes I have weeks where I arrogantly think, “I’ve got this. Motherhood? Check. Career? Check. Clean house? Hahahahahahhaah.” This has not been one of those weeks. This has been a week of morning toddler break downs, too much laundry, not enough groceries and nowhere near enough time in the day …
Read More »Giveaway! Woman of Troy
Treat yourself to something beautiful with today’s giveaway. Stephanie Herrera of Woman of Troy creates handmade, vintage jewelry. She specializes in refashioning family heirlooms into beautiful “new” pieces. Stephanie says, “I have always loved old things and enjoy taking bits and pieces, pulling them together and creating something shiny and new. …
Read More »It’s Easy Being Green!
For those of you who are old enough, you’ll remember Kermit the Frog singing “It Ain’t Easy Being Green.” I hear variations of this phrase a lot as I’m out and about and want to focus my Reno Moms Blog contributions on the fact that it really is easy being …
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